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NEW ATTRIBUTIONS - János György Simon: Tabán, 1923 (Ferenc Matits)

JÁNOS GYÖRGY SIMON: TABÁN, 1923 BY FERENC MATITS János György Simon: Tabán, 1923. Oil on canvas, 111 x76 cm Unsigned Inv.: 74.84 T During the 1960s and 1970s art historians like Júlia Szabó, Krisztina Passuth and Lajos Németh worked to bring a group of painters called The Eight, the Hungarian Avantgarde of the early twentieth century, back into public focus. Among those long-overlooked artists was Sándor Galimberti (1883-1915). Galimberti, who had a Trieste background through his father, was a pupil of István Réti and had worked at the Nagybánya Artists' Colony. He and his wife Valéria Dénes (1877-1915), also a painter, were living in Paris when war broke out in 1914. They fled to neutral Holland to avoid internment. Tragically, János György Simon: Taban, 1923. Charcoal on paper, 380x270 mm Signed lower right: G. Simon 923 Inv.: F. 96.27 they both died there the following year. Much of the work Galimberti left behind in Paris was presumed lost or destroyed, and his premature death meant that his name had been largely forgotten. Scholars looking for a significant work to enlarge the Galimberti oeuvre were inclined to attribute the painting Taban to him. It has certain similarities with Galimberti's style in its treatment of buildings. Valéria Dénes's sister, the authoress Zsófia Dénes, who had herself been in Paris before the First World War and was the only living person to have seen most of Galimberti's work, believed Taban